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as hard on the post in the centre, as it would be if the power is 

 all applied at one end. Let the mortar be first mixed in the 

 spring, and keep it well worked all summer ; and if there is as 

 much lime in it as there should be, it will spread like butter, and 

 make walls as smooth and hard as stone. These directions were 

 followed, to the letter, in mixing the mortar for my present 

 dwelling-house ; and some of it was worked over, once in ten or 

 twelve days, for more than six months before it was used; and 

 my masons affirmed that they had never before handled mortar 

 that spread so neatly, and made such firm walls. 



42. The hair should never be put in until a few days before 

 the mortar is to be used, because the lime will destroy it. In 

 separating the bunches of hair, some prefer to put it in a large tub, 

 and allow it to soak for a few days, and then have it well stirred 

 until there are no bunches ; and some prefer laying it on a floor 

 and whip it to pieces with an elastic whip. 



MOVING BUILDINGS. 



43. Buildings are very frequently located very inconveniently, 

 both in regard to each other and to the fields of the farm, and 

 removing them to a more desirable location, and arranging them 

 more conveniently, appears, to most men, almost as impracticable 

 as removing a mountain. I have known instances in which the 

 task of removing a certain building, or cluster of buildings, seemed 

 to the proprietor such a vast and expensive undertaking, that he 

 has been almost ready to offer four times as much to have the 

 job well performed, as the actual cost would be. When out 

 buildings are scattered here and there, if they are not erected on 

 a substantial wall, the arrangement would suit the fancy of most 

 men to have them conveniently arranged in a cluster, on sub 

 stantial foundations. 



44. The machinery for moving buildings has become so well 

 perfected at the present day, that it costs comparatively but a few 

 dollars to load a large building, and haul it fifty or a hundred 

 rods, up hill or down, without injuring it in the least. If the sills 

 aie sound, a building can be loaded in a few hours; and if the 



